It was a late night filled with spicy sauce, hot tempers, and Buffalo Wild Wings.

A man who works for New York’s Youth and Family Justice Department filed suit against the city today, claiming he was falsely arrested on his birthday at the popular restaurant after a disagreement with an off-duty NYPD officer.

Kamel Branham says he was the guest of honor at his own birthday party at the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant inside Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal mall on October 13, 2008.

Shortly before midnight, a disagreement grew out of a “bumping incident” and escalated into a full-blown fistfight.

The melee pit Branham’s friends against a group accompanying off-duty NYPD officer Michael Gonzalez, according to Jonathan Fink, a New York lawyer who filed the suit filed in Brooklyn federal court.

The attorney says Branham did not participate in the donnybrook, but was nevertheless arrested when on-duty police officers arrived on the scene.

Several combatants received minor injuries in the fight and a number were arrested – but none of the group accompanying Gonzalez were charged, Fink said.

Branham says he was jailed overnight, suspended from his job at New York City’s juvenile justice agency, but the assault charges against him were later dismissed.

Branham is now asking for $1 million and claims false arrest and civil rights violations.

A spokeswoman for New York City’s law department said they would be reviewing the suit when they receive it.